Fun Facts about Cardinals (The Bird, not the Person)

Here are a couple things I've observed since putting birdseed out on my windowsill -

1- Cardinals chirp while they eat

2- Cardinals like to eat at 5am

That is all.

Video

I did this.  And you can, too.  Probably.

IDK bros i've been spamming the hell out of this link.  I love building models and feel like i've unlocked secret powers by learning how to use imovie better to like... speed up the video and do voice overs.  I don't know how I feel about youtube as a Thing though.  It's great but it's also the worst for a lot of reasons.

Nanoblocks are also great but also the worst, for less reasons.

Thanks anyway.

The Lion in my House

There's a lion in my house.  He is small, but he is all Lion.  This is among the few things he knows for certain.  He knows that he is loved, and he knows that he's a lion, and that's about it.

I've been making a point to spend more time at home, and I'm now getting to see him sleep.  Little greengold eyes slowly shutting, tiny pink paws kneading at nothing, grabbing at the arm of the sofa, slipping.  I wonder what he dreams about.  Because I spend too much time at work, getting to see this small lion sleep is a rare treat.  But I know he needs the beauty rest.  He has busy days too, making sure the birds that come to our windowsill to eat stay out of trouble.  We live in an apartment now, so he no longer has to keep the proseletysers and political canvassers at bay, but keeping the birds and occasional squirrel in line have replaced that task.  And at night he has to chase the ghosts.  That's when I see the true Wild in him.

We almost thought we had lost him earlier this year, his body becoming thin and frail, his preference suddenly to just hide from the world.  But with the help of a very good veterinarian, we were able to learn of an overactive thyroid that was making him ill.  Something that can be treated with medicine.  A radiation therapy may be in the future for him, which would cure him forever, but it would require boarding him at the vet's office for five days, so I'm on the fence about that.  So for now I go into the city every month to pick up his medicine, and I stop in the zoo whilst down that way to say hi to his cousins, the big lions.

Shortcut

I have a long commute.  I used to take a shortcut home that took about 5 minutes off of it.  It is no longer a shortcut now.

The airport is right there, so my old shortcut is where the TNP lot is now located.

For those who aren't in the loop, the TNP lot is where rideshare drivers can wait til their pickups are ready.

It's exactly the dystopian wasteland one would imagine would be brought on by the share economy, but with like 50% more fistfights.  And 9001% more traffic.  So I don't go by there anymore.   It is a mess.

Rideshare drivers went on strike today, for many of the same reasons that I won't use rideshare services, but hunger trumped nosiness and I still didn't bother to drive by.

Maybe there really are no shortcuts in life lol.